One of the crowning achievements of Kai Budde's Hall of Fame career was his World Champion title in 1999. He took the top place with this Wildfire deck. The combination of explosive mana accel allowed him to play the game-dominating sorcery post-haste, all the while denying his opponent mana with Mishra's Helix and drawing extra cards via Temporal Aperture. The fact those cards were artifacts then came in handy as Kai utilized Covetous Dragon to beatdown for the win.

You can check out the 2008 Worlds Coverage live from Memphis on magicthegathering.com. Watch as Kai's Phoenix Foundation teammate Dirk Baberowski joins him in the Pro Tour Hall of Fame with the webcast of the Top 8 set to kick off from Memphis at 9:45 a.m. ET on December 14th.